Apparently this and other arcane experiments are mentioned in hushed tones concerning Ward’s grandfather, and the short of it is that in his time, he was considered quite disreputable. Lovecraft frequently used the technique of conversations between learned men (always men in his era), to whet the reader’s appetite with hints of forbidden discoveries to be made, and in this case it’s reconstituting animals from their ashes. The circumstances began when he started investigating his true family history. Cue the flashback explaining how Ward came to be in captivity. Suspense is set from the beginning as we learn Ward has escaped from captivity, from a place no-one should be able to escape from, and the last person to see him was the family doctor. The Case of Charles Dexter Ward is a Lovercraft tale, Lovecraft stories for graphic novel consumption. Culbard has all-but cornered the market on intelligent adaptations of old horror novels, most frequently, although not exclusively, reworking H.
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